On this page you can search for or list translations of Hispanic works into English published in the United States during the 21st century.

Title: The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Julia Navarro
Original work: La hermandad de la Sábana Santa
Publisher: Dell
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2007
Number of pages: 546 pp.
ISBN: 9780440243021
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A catastrophic fire at the Turin cathedral, where the Holy Shroud is kept, and discovery of a dead man without a tongue set off an investigation by the elite Italian Art Crimes Department that leads back to the mysterious origins… read more
Literary Genre: Religious fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Buenos Aires Affair
Translator(s): Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Manuel Puig
Original work: The Buenos Aires affair : novela policial
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
City: Champaign, IL
Year of Publication: 2010
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 219 pp.
ISBN: 9781564785800
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This masterful and ironic detective novel concerns the abduction of a woman, an impending murder, and the dim memories of a thousand old glamour queens-Garbo, Dietrich, Veronica Lake, Rita Hayworth-all combining to make a… read more
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Psychological fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Buenos Aires Quintet
Translator(s): Nick Caistor
Author: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Original work: Quinteto de Buenos Aires
Publisher: Melville House
City: Brooklyn, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 377 pp.
ISBN: 9781612190341
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Pepe Carvalho travels from Barcelona to Buenos Aires to search for his cousin who disappeared in the Argentine army's Dirty War, but soon finds that he is risking his own life by delving into the traumas of Argentina's history.
Literary Genre: Detective and mystery fiction, Fiction, Mystery fiction

Title: The Bugler = El Corneta
Translator(s): Edward W. Hood
Author: Roberto Castillo
Publisher: University Press of America
City: Lanham, Md.
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 134 pp.
ISBN: 0761816089
Additional Information: Responsibility: Roberto Castillo ; translated by Edward Waters Hood.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Translations, Romans

Title: The Butterfly Workshop
Translator(s): Wolf Erlbruch, Charles Castaldi
Author: Gioconda Belli
Original work: El taller de las mariposas
Publisher: Europa Editions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 44 pp.
ISBN: 1933372125
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Odaer likes to think of different ways to mix species of animals and plants in his experiments. One day he combines flowers with birds to create a butterfly.
Additional Information: Responsibility: [witten by] Gioconda Belli ; [illustrated by] Wolf Erlbruch ; translated from the Spanish by Charles Castaldi.
Literary Genre: Fiction, Juvenile works

Title: The Caiman
Translator(s): Amy Brill
Author: María Eugenia Manrique
Original work: La caimana
Publisher: Amazon Crossing Kids
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 29 pp.
ISBN: 9781542031585
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Faoro the clockmaker adopts a baby caiman, he has no idea that someday their story will travel far and wide. But the town of San Fernando de Apure would never forget this kind young man and his adoring alligator, who played… read more
Literary Genre: Picture books, Fiction, Juvenile works, Livres d'images

Title: The Cannibal Night
Translator(s): George Henson
Author: Luis Jorge Boone
Original work: La noche caníbal
Publisher: Alligator Press
City: Salt Lake City, UT
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 160 pp.
ISBN: 9780967565873
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their… read more

Title: The Captain of the Sleeping
Translator(s): Edith Grossman
Author: Mayra Montero
Original work: El capitán de los dormidos
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2005
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 181 pp.
ISBN: 0374118825
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For fifty years Andres Yasin has held a grudge against J.T. Bunker for an alleged affair with Andres' mother. Will the truth finally come out after all these years?
Literary Genre: Fiction

Title: The Cardboard House
Translator(s): Katherine Silver, Rick London
Author: Martín Adán
Original work: La casa de carton
Publisher: New Directions
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2012
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 126 pp.
ISBN: 9780811219594
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The novel presents a stunning series of flashes scenes, moods, dreams, and weather as the narrator wanders through Barranco (then an exclusive seaside resort outside Lima). In one beautiful, radical passage after another, he… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction

Title: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El caballero del jubón amarillo
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2009
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 0399156038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Struggling to fit into the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, reluctantly remain in the employ of the crown for their unique services but find their prospects… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction

Title: The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Translator(s): Margaret Jull Costa
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El caballero del jubón amarillo
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2003
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 369 pp.
ISBN: 9780399156038
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, with its posh theaters and gleaming palaces, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Íñigo, become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the… read more
Literary Genre: Adventure stories, Historical fiction, Action and adventure fiction, Fiction, History, Adventure fiction

Title: The Chase
Translator(s): Alfred J. Mac Adam
Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
City: Minneapolis
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 121 pp.
ISBN: 0816638098
Additional Information: Responsibility: Alejo Carpentier ; translated by Alfred MacAdam ; introduction by Timothy Brennan.

Title: The Children of Mount Eden
Translator(s): María Bennet
Author: Tomás Modesto Galán
Original work: Los niños del Monte Edén : cuentos
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
City: Charleston, SC
Year of Publication: 2013
Number of pages: 201 pp.
ISBN: 9781493741083
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) This book is a collection of stories that will echo in the hearts of all who are familiar with this kind of life, but perhaps can – even more significantly-- create the illusion of an echo even in those people, who perhaps… read more

Title: The City of Mist : Stories
Translator(s): Lucia Graves, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Original work: La ciudad de vapor : todos los cuentos
Publisher: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Collection: Serie universitaria
Edition number: 1
Number of pages: 162 pp.
ISBN: 9780063143159
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Presents a complete collection of the author's short stories, some of which were not previously published. The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable… read more
Literary Genre: Short stories

Title: The Club Dumas
Translator(s): Sonia Soto
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Original work: El club Dumas
Publisher: Harcourt, Inc.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2006
Number of pages: 362 pp.
ISBN: 9780156032834
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Lucas Corso, a rare book hunter, is called in to authenticate a fragment of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's "The Three Musketeers," found in the possession of a murdered bibliophile, and soon finds himself involved… read more

Title: The Color of Summer, or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Viking
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 417 pp.
ISBN: 9780670840656
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arenas's finest comic achievement is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of autobiographical novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in… read more
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Color of Summer, Or, The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2001
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Color of Summer: Or The New Garden of Earthly Delights
Translator(s): Andrew Hurley
Author: Reinaldo Arenas
Publisher: Penguin Books
City: New York
Year of Publication: 2000
Collection: Serie universitaria
Number of pages: 465 pp.
ISBN: 0140157190
Summary/Reviews: (From publisher description) The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonía, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Andrew Hurley.
Literary Genre: Novels, Fiction, Romans

Title: The Colors of Memory
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Original work: Los colores de la memoria
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2000
Number of pages: 224 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their… read more

Title: The Colors of Memory
Translator(s): Gabriela Tagliavini
Author: Gabriela Tagliavini
Original work: Los colores de la memoria
Publisher: Herodias
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2001
Number of pages: 204 pp.
ISBN: 9781928746171
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Facing death from cancer in a Mexican hospital, Carla Arnone escapes from the hospital to California with a ten-year-old boy, relating her life story to "the kid" and her obsession with colors before they reach their destination.